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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

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  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

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  Giving, Noble, Achieve

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

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  Children, Blow, Hands

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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  Girl, Summer, Country

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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• Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

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  Inspirational Love, Men, Thinking

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

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  Hate, Wings, Touching

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

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  Running, Silence, Emptiness

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

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  Inspiration, Eye, Artist

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

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  People, Feelings, Going Away

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1031, eBookIt.com

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• Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

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  Falling In Love, Real, Mean

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• Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

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  Stupid, Should, Teach

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.54, Vintage

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• Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

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  Family, Strong, Hatred

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.141, Vintage

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• Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

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  Country, Time, Long

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.894, eBookIt.com

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• Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

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  Ideas, Certain, Companion

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

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  Book, Men, Air

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

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• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

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  Book, Years, Rivers

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• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

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  Mean, Pride, Expression

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

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  Boys, Men, Hands

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.151, U of Nebraska Press

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• New things are always ugly.

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  Ugly, New Things, Newness

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

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  Heart, Too Much, Alive

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

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  Land, Pioneers, Littles

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

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  Heart, Goes On, Matter

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

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  1927 Death Comes to the Archbishop, prologue.

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• The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

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  People, May, Littles

  Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.74, U of Nebraska Press

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